Thorny

What do we mean by thorny?

Having many thorns or abounding in thorn-covered vegetation. adjective

Spiny or prickly. adjective

Controversial, problematic, or vexatious. adjective

Abounding in or covered with thorns; producing thorns; prickly; spiny.

Characteristic of or resembling a thorn; sharp; irritating; painful.

In zoology, spinous; prickly; echinate.

Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny. adjective

Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. adjective

Rest-harrow. adjective

A prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (Fagonia Cretica, etc.). adjective

Having thorns or spines adjective

Troublesome or vexatious adjective

Bristling with perplexities adjective

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. adjective

Having thorns or spines

Troublesome or vexatious

Aloof and irritable

Words that are spelled similarly to thorny:
thorny, thorn, horny, thorns, thorne, chorny, thorney.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word thorny:
huisache, katydid, moloch, bushes, scrubland, catfish, radiata, haj, spiny, shrubs, cacti, scrub, orinoco, snowshoe, acacia, tangle, thicket, thorns, oysters, shrub, rubus, fabaceae, canes, prickly, briar, undergrowth, wattle, broom, twigs, deciduous, haji, savanna, stingray, lizard, thorn, toothed, cactus, skate, fleshy, guyana, vines, devil, stems, vegetation, oyster, nests, cheat, eucalyptus, hedge, mangrove, amazon, trees, lays, arid, bark, herbs, bamboo, bolivia, hawthorn, leaves, hairs, frog, colombia, clutch, grassland, lea, ants, cultivated, nest, endemic, bush, peru, ecuador, basin, flowers, plants, genus, branches, fence, forests, tree, depths, dragon, venezuela, evergreen, devils, patches, species, eggs, oval, shells, dry, flowering, fruit, paraguay, ridges, tall, genera, predators, grazing.

Words that rhyme with thorny:
corny, horny, porny, horney, sigourney, forney, corney, gorny, chorney, forni, pokorny, dorney, gorney, sore knee, born he, corn he, cornie, corps ne, encore ne, horn he, komorny, morn he, odiorne, pour ne, scorn he, sworn he, torn he, torn knee, torney, wore knee, worn he, worn knee, your knee.

Adjectives that are often used to describe thorny:
little, least, most, ancient, clumsy, large, hog, great, long.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective thorny:
problem, issue, question, bushes, problems, issues, path, questions, shrubs, bush, branches, trees, plants, tree, shrub, subject, scrub, crown, paths, road, thickets, hedge, vines, brush, jungle, plant, ground, stems, thicket, vegetation, twigs, leaves, branch, hedges, ways, matter, species, acacias, cactus, acacia, wilderness, stem, undergrowth, task, brambles, topic, wood, points, field, growth, underbrush, brake, bed, dilemma, creepers, jungles, vine, forest, weeds, roses, spines, brakes, tangle, bamboo, sticks, difficulties, maze, fence, matters, mimosas, boughs, devil, brushwood, dilemmas, barrier, canes, chaparral, oyster, mimosa, creeper, desert, forests, stalk, grass, soil, spikes, fruit, stick, growths.

Consonant match to thorny:
thorner, thar now, thor knew, thorn a, thorn knew, thorne knew.

Words that sound like thorny:
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